Enrichment and animal age, not biological variables, predict positive welfare indicators in zoo-housed carnivores
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: activity, affective state, behaviour, captive, interaction, Phylogenetic, play
2024
Communication from the Zoo: Reports from Zoological Facilities of the Impact of COVID-19 Closures on Animals
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Keywords: communication, COVID-19, keeper-animal interactions, social media, visitor–animal interactions, zoo closures
2022
Impacts of natural history and exhibit factors on carnivore welfare
Publication/Journal: Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Keywords: animal welfare, behavioral diversity, infant mortality, offspring production, pacing, reproductive success
2019
Neurophysiological correlates of stereotypic behaviour in a model carnivore species
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
Keywords: basal ganglia, Dorsal striatum, environmental enrichment, Index Medicus, mink, stereotypic behaviour, Ventral striatum
2019
Big city life: Carnivores in urban environments
Publication/Journal: Journal of Zoology
Keywords: adaptation, carnivora, urbanization
2012
Individual differences in stereotypic behaviour predict individual differences in the nature and degree of enrichment use in caged American mink
Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Keywords: american mink, environmental enrichment, establishment, individual variation, motivation, stereotypic behaviour
2012
The effectiveness of indigestible markers for identifying individual animal feces and their prevalence of use in North American zoos
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: endocrine research, fecal markers, zoo survey, zoological parks
2011
Energy digestibility of giant pandas on bamboo-only and on supplemented diets
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: calorie, carnivore, digestibility trials, extraction, nutrition, supplements
2011
Sex differences in spatial memory ability: a test of the range size hypothesis in the order carnivora
Publication/Journal:
Keywords: cognitive psychology, dissertation/thesis, evolutionary theory, giant panda, otter, range size hypothesis, sex differences, spatial memory
2011
Scaling of body temperature in mammals and birds
Publication/Journal: Functional Ecology
Keywords: birds, mammal, mass, scaling, temperature
2007